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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by SXX on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:17AM (#26634229)
If someone want non-rate-limted IP info here is:

https://lumtest.com/myip.json

https://lumtest.com/echo.json

It's powered by largest residential proxy network so they almost certainly never gonna ban your IP.

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by koolba on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:56AM (#26634646)
What is a residential proxy network?
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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by duskwuff on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:37PM (#26638520)
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

But seriously, it's basically a front end to a bunch of people who have been incentivized (or fooled) into installing a proxy server on their home computers. It's primarily of interest as a way to make certain types of fraud (like ad fraud and credit card fraud) much harder to detect.

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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by judge2020 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:29AM (#26634991) 

  $ whois 52.202.152.73
  OrgName:        Amazon Technologies Inc.
I guess Amazon? Would be funny if this actually ran over Amazon Sidewalk but I doubt that.
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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by weird-eye-issue on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:44PM (#26637765)
You are looking at the IP of lumtest.com not the service behind it which is what the OP was referring to.
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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:34AM (#26635048)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminati
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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by paxo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:23AM (#26634920)
yeah that seems interesting
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Re:Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address” by kalleboo on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:27AM (#26634965)
One note is that that one doesn't seem to support ipv6
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